Hard Lesson

In the Special Ed blog I am following, a teacher named Lisa wrote about an extremely difficult situation she had to handle. She was told one of her students brought a knife to school and when confronted by her, completely lied about it. In the end he did actually have a knife, received a ten day suspension and was returning this week. In the current school climate where there is so much violence, this type of situation needs to be handled so carefully. I felt she handled it extremely well. She is having a harder time dealing with the fact that he could calmly lie to her more then the actual act of bringing a knife to school. I completely agree that the lie is worse than the act. I always tell my own children that I can forgive any situation as long as they are honest.